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Well chat disappeared but forum is back!!!

Did an inspection on my colony today. First one since I removed the excluder,prolly about a week, although I didn't go into the brood chamber.

Wow what a difference. Had 4x(at least) as many bees in supers as when the excluder was in + things have been getting really dry around here.
I had to sort out some burr comb and other crap comb from the supers from when I had an excluder in there. Ended up putting another super on 3 total now(shallows). Guessing I already have about 40# in those two and they aren't even full. They are just starting to cap some of the honey.


No more excluders for me, that was Pepsi challenge enough for me.
I am wondering how much farther along I would have been if I would have never put an excluder in. Seems the girls like it excluder free better. Plus they aren't wasting energy making wax I will just pull out when they have comb I want them to build on foundation.
 
Think I'm pulling the excluders this weekend, first and last time I'll use them. Peeked in the top of one of the hives and there still isn't a lot of bees in the honey super.
Something wierd is going on with one of my new hives, started out with all three hives looking the same, orange/yellow Italian bees and queens. Now one hive seems to of gone dark. All the bees out on the hive front are dark brown while the other hives have orange/yellow bees on the front. I wonder if the hive made a new queen, need to open it up and see what's going on.
 
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